Neat project: add pointer capability to std.bitmanip.bitfields
Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 2 11:54:23 PST 2015
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 19:39:47 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
> Once done, this is a fantastic example of (a) the power of
> generative programming, and (b) the advantages of using library
> facilities instead of built-in features.
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15397
>
> Who would want to take it?
Warning, this is very unsafe and incompatible with the GC.
Bit-twiddling GC pointers can lead to memory corruption and very
hard-to-track bugs. Such a feature must be opt-in in a very
explicit way.
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